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A Beautiful Expanse of blue water, America's most storied estuary, home to important maritime and recreational pursuits, and linked to clear-running rivers. OR a brooding body of water, filled with toxins, lacking nutrients, and dying an inexorable death. After decades of efforts to Save the Bay, with the bay still sick, this timely book reviews the whole environmental history of the bay, showing why and how the sickness has been cumulative from colonial times to the present. The Chesapeake Bay is often called the Crown Jewel of Maryland and the Mid-Atlantic region. Born in an ice age a mere 20,000 years ago, the bay has 5,000 miles of shoreline and is the heart of a watershed of 64,900 square miles. Its drainage area equals the geography of six New England states. Its tributaries are impressive: the James, the Potomac, the Susquehanna, the Rappahannock, the Patapsco. Washington, Richmond, Baltimore, and Philadelphia, and all places among and between, depend on the health of the bay. What is known, what is yet to be learned about the long-term health of the Chesapeake, bears on the health of waters around the world.<p> This strong, highly readable narrative by a long-time resident

Who reads The Chesapeake: An Environmental Biography (Maryland Historical Society)?

Author

Wennersten, John R., 1941-

Publisher

The Maryland Center for History and Culture

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780938420750

Category

history

Subjects

Anthropology, History, Nature

Rating

4.8 / 5 (6 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14